This remarkable work situates Karl Mannheim not only in the Austro-Hungarian empire, but in Hungary and especially in the intellectual fever pitch of pre-war Budapest, with its plethora of revisionist Marxists, anarchists, and intellectuals from a variety of areas who brought radical ideas into the mainstream of biological and social sciences

Part I: Hungarian Marxism 1. The Socio-Historical Context of Hungarian Marxism 2. Three Representative Figures: Erwin Szabo, Paul Szende, and Bela Fogarasi 3. Hungarian Marxism after 1920 Part II: Karl Mannheim 4. Mannheim and the French Public: The Controversy over Ideology and Utopia 5. Ideology and False Consciousness 6. The Problem of the "Socially Unattached Intelligentsia" 7. Mannheim's Second Period (Writings in Emigration) 8. Utopian Consciousness 9. Critique of Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge 10. Socially Determined Thought and Historical Materialism: Mannheim and Marxism